I’m Getting So Hot…

How many times can we spend time talking about climate change in this podcast series? As long as it takes. And there’s been a resurgence in the conversation “oh, it’s not real,” or “why do we have to solve it?” The facts are simple: we all contributed to the current situation, the United States more than most. We are the world’s number one consumers after all, so even some part of the emissions from other countries comes down to satisfying our appetites for goods.

We have to start here. The world will follow, and to not do it means that we’re basically coasting to our own doom. It won’t happen in one lifetime, perhaps. And it’s sneaky in that it’s not like suddenly half of North America is going to break off and float into the ocean. The truth is more insideous, and more dangerous. The fact is that we are, by scientific accounts, outdoing ourselves for the destruction of our nation. According to scientists, we’re almost twenty years ahead of schedule, and not in a good way. What we’re experiencing today in terms of increased fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, weather patterns, etc., shouldn’t be happening for another twenty-plus years.

You read that right.

We’re twenty or more years ahead of schedule in how efficiently we’re destroying the Earth. So yeah, we could sit here and debate about the climate all day long, but at the end of the day, the truth happens whether we fight about it or not. And then we’ll all be dead.
It’s not an exageration.